Nor could the hardest ir'n hold out
Against his blows, but they would through't.

exhibits to a sieve, a crow, a cannon, a blunderbuss, a mortar, a trumpet, and a kettle-drum, will be easily discernible. The last line concerning him (viz. S64) relates to a circumstance regarding his prototype, which it is not necessary to point out, and, on the score of decency, not fit to dwell upon and the same may be said of the lines that follow 390, relative to Trulla, who is represented in

Fig. 20.

as situate close to Magnano but below him, her face being formed of the shadows which compose the left leg of Talgol.

In magic he was deeply read,
As he that made the brazen head.
Profoundly skilled in the black art,
As English Merlin for his heart;
But far more skilful in the spheres,
Than he was at the sieve and shears.
He could transform himself in colour,

As like the devil as a collier ;

As like as hypocrites in show

As to true saints, or crow to crow.

Of warlike engines he was author,
Devis'd for quick dispatch of slaughter:

The canon, blunderbuss, and saker,
He was th' inventor of, and maker :
The trumpet and the kettle-drum
Did both from his invention come.
He was the first that e'er did teach

To make, and how to stop a breach.

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A lance he bore with iron pike,

Th' one half would thrust, the other strike:
And when their forces he had join'd,
He scorn'd to turn his parts behind.
He Trulla lov'd, Trulla more bright
Than burnished armour of her knight:
A bold virago, stout and tall,
As Joan of France, or English Mall.
Through perils both of wind and limb,

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Through thick and thin she follow'd him, 370

In every adventure h' undertook,
And never him or it forsook.

At breach of wall, or hedge surprise,
She shar'd o' th' hazard and the prize:
At beating quarters up, or forage,
Behav'd herself with matchless courage,
And laid about in fight more busily,
Than th' Amazonian dame Penthesile,

And though some critics here cry shame,
And say our authors are to blame,

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To fight like Termigants and Turks:
To lay their native arms aside,
Their modesty, and ride astride;

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To government, which they suppose
Can never be upheld in prose:
Strip nature naked to the skin,

You'll find about her no such thing.
It may be so; yet what we tell
Of Trulla that's improbable,

Shall be depos'd by those have seen't,

Or, what's as good, produced in print:
And if they will not take our word,
We'll prove it true upon record.

The upright Cerdon next advanc'd,
Of all his race the valiant'st:
Cerdon the Great, renown'd in song,
Like Herc'les for repair of wrong:
He rais'd the low, and fortify'd
The weak against the strongest side:

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409. In order to have a clear idea of Cerdon, the map of the moon must be once more changed in position, and viewed with that side which is on the right hand of the north placed uppermost, when a figure like the one numbered 21 will be seen to face the south, and occupy the whole of the shaded part of the moon; for which reason he is called " Great." His name is derived from Cerdo, a cobler, which is alluded to by the epithet 'blackthumb'd,' and the mention of well-sol'd boots,' and he has very much the aspect of a cobler.